Geting Approved

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Contributing 101

Anyone can contribute designs to the Inkd marketplace in just a few easy steps. Simply sign up, create a new
graphic design submission using our product templates and upload your design files. Our staff will review your
design, and once it’s accepted Inkd visitors will see the product for sale in our marketplace. Customers from all
over the world can easily purchase and download your design without any other action by you. We take care of all
order processing and support, and send you a payment when your designs are sold. You can join up and start selling
right away!

Sign Up for a free account.

Any designer can set up an account for free. You need to be at least 18 years old and agree to our terms and
conditions but other than that, you simply need to be creative! Not every design is accepted so that means that
the customer experience on Inkd is rewarding and inspirational.
Once you're signed up
and you've uploaded your designs, you are set to start earning money on every sale.

Create a New Product

At the moment, Inkd accepts designs for most popular print form factors used in global business. This includes
brochures, business cards, letterhead, envelopes, post cards and more. You start creating a new product by
simply
signing up
and logging into your admin area. Select "Create a New Product" from the left-hand navigation and upload your
submissions!

Select a Design Product and your options.

When you create a new product, you'll follow a simply step-by-step wizard process. To get going, you'll need to
tell us whether you are creating a brochure, letterhead, business card, notecard etc. Then, tell us which size
you'd like to upload. We accept both American and standard European ISO formats such as A4 etc.

Download your Template file.

Nobody has ever tried to do what we're doing at Inkd. That is, to build a user-generated content marketplace
specifically for professional print designs. To help designers get going and to insure continuity with our
designs, we ask designers to start with our "base template". This is a blank template that has bleed and cut
lines already set up to get you going.
Be sure to use our templates when you start designing
so that we can get your design approved faster!

Upload your Design Files.

Once you've downloaded one of our print templates upon which you based your design you are ready to start selling
in the world's first print marketplace. Upload your design and all the supporting files that your design relies
on. This includes any fonts which you have rights to distribute and stock photography used in your design. Some
designers even include a preview PDF which our review team really likes.

Earn Commissions in your sleep.

Once you've uploaded your design, you need to help people find it! So, give your design a descriptive title and
use a fair number of useful, descriptive tags. Most designers will use about 20-30 tags to help their designs be
found by shoppers. (Don't "tag stuff" your design with hundreds of tags because our design community manager
doesn't like that and might give you a hard time.) When your design sells, you will get a notification email of
the amount owed to you. Be sure to read our
commissions policy
so you understand how this works!